About

About

A Diverse Onshore and Offshore Construction Services Provider

Gulf Island is a diversified, publicly traded corporation that has grown to be a worldwide leader in the project management, construction, and servicing of offshore and onshore facilities within the energy sector and beyond. In our construction facilities located in the United States along the Gulf Coast, our craftsmen have built many "First of a Kind" products along with some of the largest steel structures across the globe that continue to serve our customers today.

Our Core Values

Our mission is to excel in providing solutions for our customers across a variety of industries by achieving success for our customers, safety for our employees, and value for our shareholders through a constant emphasis on:

Safety

We continually invest in employee training and technology to maintain the highest quality and safety standards in the industry. We approach safety as a primary foundation of how we work.

Integrity

We proudly operate in a fair and ethical manner because we strongly believe that the success of an organization is built on the trust of our employees, customers, and our shareholders.

Quality

We have built our reputation by delivering quality products and services to clients around the globe for over 30 years.

Revolutionizing the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry

After our formation in 1985 and in the subsequent decades, the offshore oil and gas industry made significant investments in the continental shelf and deepwaters of the Gulf of Mexico. Gulf Island was instrumental in building many of the offshore structures which remain in production today delivering oil and natural gas to our shores. New techniques were required to meet the requirements of our customers as production continued to extend into deeper offshore waters. Gulf Island was there to provide many "Firsts" and worked with clients to develop unique solutions to offshore oil and gas production challenges.

First Offshore Wind Project

We are proud to have been a part of the first offshore wind power project in the United States - Deepwater Wind's Block Island Project off the coast of Rhode Island. We produced five customized wind turbine foundations for a project that is now producing renewable energy for Block Island residents.

Two of the Largest U.S.-Flagged Lift Boats

We constructed and delivered two of the largest U.S.-flagged lift boats with leg lengths of 335 feet outfitted with four ABS-Classed cranes with almost 600 tons of combined lift capacity. One of the lift boats also supported installation activities of the Deepwater Wind Block Island Project noted above.

Third Largest Jacket in the Gulf of Mexico

We constructed the third largest production jacket in the Gulf of Mexico, weighing 30,000 tons and measuring 1,250 feet in length which continues to operate in the Gulf of Mexico.

The First Classic SPAR

We were the first company in the U.S. to build a classic SPAR. This deepwater hull weighed in at 12,000 tons and measured over 600 feet in length and continues to operate in the Gulf of Mexico.

Original MinDOC Concept

In 2009, we realized our founder's MinDOC™ concept and delivered the 19,000-ton hull to our customer in the Gulf of Mexico.

First Mini-TLP Hull

We constructed the first Mini-TLP (tension-leg platform) in the U.S.

Innovating Since Conception

Our history dates back to 1947 when our founder, Alden J. "Doc" Laborde, worked on the first offshore oil and gas well in the Gulf of Mexico. In 1953, Laborde revolutionized the oil and gas industry by designing the world's first offshore mobile drilling rig. Laborde later took advantage of the downturn that hit the oil and gas industry in 1985 and purchased a fabrication facility in Louisiana that had gone bankrupt, and thus co-founded Gulf Island Fabrication, Inc. The Company went public in 1997 (NASDAQ: GIFI) after it quickly established itself as an offshore leader. After years of sustained growth, we proudly possess the largest fabrication capacity in the U.S. along with a complement of services and shipbuilding capacity.